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• Review: In 'Loving,' the revolution power of a true love

  01-11-2016 23:49
  
  Film Review: In Jeff Nichols' tender, graceful "Loving," a love story progresses naturally, beautifully, with sudden, surreal interruptions that play like abductions
  
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• Review: Mel Gibson roars back with bruising 'Hacksaw Ridge'

  01-11-2016 23:17
  
  Film Review: Mel Gibson's first directorial effort in 10 years is the bruisingly violent but also very moving tale of Desmond Doss, the only American WWII soldier to fight on the front lines with no weapon
  
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• Old Gray releasing new LP 'Slow Burn' & touring (stream a track)

  01-11-2016 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cameron Boucher may now be best known for Sorority Noise, but their debut LP actually came out the year after the other band he fronts, Old Gray. Now he's set to release Old Gray's sophomore album...
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• Gift Guide For Your Brooklyn Guy

  01-11-2016 22:49 via bkmag.com
  
  DNA Footwear is Brooklyn’s leading shopping destination for what’s hot in the world of footwear, offering more than 150 domestic and international brands. Stylists from DNA Footwear share their favorite holiday gift picks for Brooklyn’s diverse and influential men:
  Men’s Sentry Leather Watch by Nixon, $149.99“Men and women collect Nixon watches because of the fun quotes engraved on the back. I like that the Sentry Leather says “NEVER BE LATE” for those w
  
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• Thurston Moore & John Zorn playing Rough Trade 40th Anniversary show in NYC

  01-11-2016 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plus: other Sonic Youth related news.
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• Cherry Glazerr played Baby's (NSFW pics), share 'Nurse Ratched' from forthcoming LP, touring in 2017

  01-11-2016 21:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 'Nurse Ratched" video is a minature horror flick directed by Roxanne Benjamin (Southbound and V/H/S).
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• Pakistani gang rape victim walks the fashion runway

  01-11-2016 21:38
  
  A Pakistani gang-rape victim has walked the fashion runway, seeking to serve as a symbol of hope to other Pakistani women
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Oct. 24-30

  01-11-2016 21:29
  
  A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Oct. 24-30
  
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• As Election Day nears, big numbers for news networks

  01-11-2016 21:27
  
  CNN, Fox News and MSNBC are enjoying some of their best ratings ever as a hotly contested presidential race nears its conclusion
  
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• Rapper K'naan wants to tell Somali-American tale in HBO show

  01-11-2016 21:09
  Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan wants to tell a story in his proposed HBO series "Mogadishu, Minnesota" that he has lived _ an immigrant coming to America and trying to adjust
  
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• Marvel takes mind-bending turn with "Doctor Strange"

  01-11-2016 21:08
  
  Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the arrogant neurosurgeon turned mystical sorcerer, "Doctor Strange" not only kicks the Marvel engine into hyper drive, but into a different dimension as well
  
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• Afghan Whigs playing 'Black Love' benefit shows for guitarist Dave Rosser who was diagnosed w/ inoperable colon cancer

  01-11-2016 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Dave Rosser has been my close friend and bandmate for over a decade now. By doing these shows for him we hope to ease any financial stress he may face as he pursues treatment to combat his illness. 100% of the proceeds from these shows will go to his medical care. I’m hopeful that folks will come out and show their support for Dave who will be performing with us." - Greg Dulli.
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• Foxing got into a scary accident (everyone's ok), will try to continue tour

  01-11-2016 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While they were pulled over by the side of the road, a runaway truck slid over into their area and slammed into the van.
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• Spotlit: The Chimney

  01-11-2016 20:10 via bkmag.com
  
  It is a vessel of darkness and a conveyor of light.
  It glimmers and it dims.
  It hangs and sits. It hums and looms.
  It heaves, and it breathes.
  It seems to absorb, and it seems to sigh, and it seems, as well, to seethe. Its nebulousness shifts, its mystery eludes. Ostensibly, it is alive.
  You might be in the body of a beast.
  Maybe it ate you. Maybe you let it. Maybe you wandered into its maw. Maybe you awoke it from a slumber. Maybe it doesn’t really mind. Maybe it likes you in its insides
  
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• Chance the Rapper making film debut as a Werewolf who is a former delivery guy

  01-11-2016 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The movie is due in 2017 via A24 Films, who are having a great year thanks to 'Moonlight,' which you can now watch the "Classic Man" clip from.
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• Sleaford Mods announce 2017 North American tour (BrooklynVegan presale for NYC show)

  01-11-2016 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This will be the Mods' first North American tour, and first U.S. performance since playing the BV-presented 2014 show in Brooklyn.
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• Grand Ole Opry opening location in Times Square; 'A Prairie Home Companion' returning to NYC

  01-11-2016 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Opry City Stage hopes to open in Times Square in 2017.
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• Fitting Your Whole Essay on the “Write-In” Line

  01-11-2016 19:35 via bkmag.com
  
  This November 8, in just six days, voters will find a tiny 2.5-inch essay line on the ballot. Anyone with handwriting will find this space insufficient to qualify their vote for Hillary Clinton.
  It will definitely be difficult to list any concerns still remaining about her e-communications: drawing the twisty diagram that connects the FBI to Comey to Congress to Clinton to Huma to Weiner to Weiner’s Computer to Weiner’s Pedophilic Online Interests—and back again
  
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• Doomsday Student releasing 'A Self-Help Tragedy' (stream a new track)

  01-11-2016 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This weekend they play Boston's Hassle Fest with Pharmakon, Wolf Eyes, Sad13, and more.
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• Country hitmaker Claude 'Curly' Putman dies

  01-11-2016 19:06
  
  Country songwriter Claude "Curly" Putman has died
  
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• Colleen Ballinger's character has a new Netflix series

  01-11-2016 19:04
  
  YouTube character Miranda Sings now has a Netflix series, "Haters Back Off!" The show takes viewers inside the life of the overly confident, fame-obsessed Miranda
  
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• NBA to announce award winners in new postseason awards show

  01-11-2016 18:48
  The NBA will announce the winner of the MVP and its other major awards during a new postseason awards show
  
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• Ops, the Goddess of Abundance (and Pizza), Giveth Unto Bushwick

  01-11-2016 18:25 via bkmag.com
  
  I walked into Ops, a Neapolitan-inspired pizza bar and restaurant in Bushwick early in October. The late afternoon sun cut through front windows and onto a wooden bar, illuminating bottles of Amaro and organic wine behind it. Friends who had just completed the build-out, sat on stools facing the clay-tiled oven and inhaling fresh baked sourdough crusts with Marinara and Margherita toppings. Ops’s floor plan is not much larger than a home whose kitchen, dining, and living room all flow in a
  
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• “Mein Führer! I Can Walk Through Dimensions!” or: Doctor Strange, Love

  01-11-2016 18:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Doctor StrangeDirected by Scott DerricksonOpens November 4
  In Thor: The Dark World, perhaps not one of the most fondly or clearly remembered movies from the interconnected Marvel Studios dynasty, the movie took a while to warm up, with rehashed palace intrigue and fitfully amusing fish-out-of-water antics reversing the trajectory of the first film (the first time, Thor was the fish; the second time, it’s his human friends. Is any of this ringing a bell?). But while plenty of Marvel pictur
  
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• Tyler Perry says 'Boo!' is distraction America needs now

  01-11-2016 17:31
  
  Tyler Perry felt more grateful than surprised after his latest Madea movie topped the North American box office for a second straight week
  
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• A new meadery in Bushwick brings honey wine out of the dark ages

  01-11-2016 17:31
  
  You can drink this mead on its own, or it makes an amazing cocktail base. Photo: Enlightenment Wines
  Just when you thought Bushwick had everything, a new meadery opens its doors. Now all the neighborhood needs is a blacksmith and good roast mutton joint.
  Englightment Wines owner Raphel Lyon and mixologist Arley Marks teamed up to open Honey’s, a meadery, tasting room and event space dedicated to the ancient libation. Mead has traditionally been known as a sweet, even cloying honey&nb
  
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• In this US election year, celebrities take their gloves off

  01-11-2016 17:25
  
  Politics is a brutal game in any year but the 2016 election has provoked a visceral, intense response from many the arts community, prompting songs, videos and uncommon ferocity against Donald Trump, arguably once one of their own
  
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• The Shawarma Has Landed: Samesa Settles Down in Williamsburg

  01-11-2016 17:07 via bkmag.com
  
  For two chefs that had yet to (technically) run their own restaurant, brothers Eli and Max Sussman somehow managed to maintain an exceptionally high industry profile for years. In fact, while working their way up the ranks at popular NYC establishments (Eli at Mile End, Max at Roberta’s and The Cleveland), they impressively garnered not just one, but three cookbook deals, commencing with “This is A Cookbook” in 2012, and culminating with “Classic Recipes for Modern People
  
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• Appeals court orders new murder trial for ex-rap promoter

  01-11-2016 16:46
  
  A federal appeals court in New York City has ordered a new murder-for-hire trial for a former hip-hop and rap promoter serving a life prison term
  
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• Meet The Lemon Twigs, “The Next Billy Joel of Hicksville”

  01-11-2016 16:30 via bkmag.com
  
  Sitting in a booth at a Long Island diner with Brian and Michael D’Addario, it’s easy to forget that they’re on the cusp of a likely and glorious rock-and-roll adventure.
  The week prior, the brothers and their band, The Lemon Twigs, played The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and a couple days before that they headlined a gig at Manhattan’s Irving Plaza. Do Hollywood, their debut album for UK-based 4AD, one of the most storied tastemaker labels of the past 40 year
  
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• The blood-red carpet: Costumes from boro Halloween bashes

  01-11-2016 16:27
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Brooklyn DailyHalloween events in Marine Park and Bay Ridge were bursting bewitching costumes this year. Here are some of the highlights!Reach deputy editor Max Jaeger at [email protected] or by calling (718) 260–8303. Follow him on Twitter @JustTheMax.Comment on this story.
  
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• Washington Post media columnist wins New England prize

  01-11-2016 15:37
  
  Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan has been awarded New England's top prize honoring those who work to defend press freedoms
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] Are your afraid of the Park? Prospect offers thrills and chills for trick or treaters

  01-11-2016 15:30
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperCall it Brooklyn’s Graveyard!
  Pint-sized ghouls, goblins, and their parental poltergeists took over Prospect Park on Sunday, shuffling through the annual Haunted Walk and Boo at the Zoo events in Brooklyn’s Backyard, which organizers say aim to both entertain and scare Kings County’s trick or treat set.“We blur the lines between scary and fun,” said Prospect Park Z
  
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• Something classic, new and a little political for Chenoweth

  01-11-2016 15:28
  
  "Glee" and "The West Wing" star Kristin Chenoweth will deliver some must-have songs in her upcoming concert, "My Love Letter to Broadway," which starts Wednesday and runs through Nov. 13 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City
  
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• Ron Howard set for 'Odd Couple' tribute to Garry Marshall

  01-11-2016 15:17
  
  Ron Howard is among those set to guest star in a tribute to late TV sitcom king Garry Marshall in an episode of "The Odd Couple" next week
  
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• [PARK SLOPE] NYPD boo! Slope’s 78th Precinct becomes haunted house for Halloween

  01-11-2016 14:26
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperCall it a station house of horrors!Park Slope police scared the pants off thousands of local thrillseekers between Oct. 26 and Halloween, transforming the already-creepy basement of the 78th Precinct’s headquarters into a true vision of horror full of off-duty officers disguised as wicked ghouls and a room filled entirely with creepy clowns that sacred the pants, according to one cop.&ldq
  
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• Chinese, Malaysian navies to cooperate in South China Sea

  01-11-2016 14:06
  
  China and Malaysia say their navies will cooperate more in the politically sensitive South China Sea in an agreement signed during a visit by Malaysia's leader, who is seeking stronger ties with Beijing as he tries to offset a financial scandal at home
  
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• Charlamagne tha God has book coming next spring

  01-11-2016 14:01
  
  After interviewing Hillary Clinton, Kanye West and Jay Z, among others, Charlamagne tha God is ready for something really challenging: writing a book
  
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• Rapper behind song 'Sell Drugz' is accused of selling drugs

  01-11-2016 14:00
  
  A rapper whose songs include "Sell Drugz" has been charged with selling drugs in Pennsylvania
  
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• [PHOTO GALLERIES] Coney Ahhhh-land! Ghouls take over Boardwalk for Halloween parade

  01-11-2016 13:20
  
  Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn PaperIt was like the Spook-a-Rama came alive!Pint-sized pirates, robots, and candy-crazed zombies invaded the People’s Playground on Oct. 29 for the Coney Island Children’s Halloween Parade. The freak fest marched down the Boardwalk from W. 19th Street to Luna Park at W. 10th Street for a day-long fest featuring face-painting, magic shows, and free amusement park rides. And trick-or-
  
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• Messianic Mel: Hacksaw Ridge

  01-11-2016 13:00 via bkmag.com
  
  Hacksaw RidgeDirected by Mel GibsonOpens November 2
  The last time a Mel Gibson-directed film was released during a presidential election year—and I assume many other critics will also point this out—was 2004, when The Passion of the Christ became a political/cultural flashpoint for its anti-Semitic undertones and ultra-graphic crucifixion of Jesus. But, to paraphrase our latest Noble Prize winner in literature, the times have most certainly a-changed: this election year’s most
  
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• South African man goes to prison for Pistorius scam attempt

  01-11-2016 12:05
  
  South African man gets 4 years in prison for Pistorius scam attempt
  
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• Sony Music apologizes for Japanese band's Nazi-like outfits

  01-11-2016 11:47
  
  Sony Music Japan has apologized after a popular Japanese all-girls band came under fire for performing in outfits resembling Nazi-era German military uniforms
  
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• Virginia music promoter facing heat for blackface costume

  01-11-2016 10:41
  
  A music promoter in Virginia is facing backlash on social media for dressing in blackface as part of his Halloween costume over the weekend
  
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• German music industry, YouTube sign licensing fee deal

  01-11-2016 09:50
  
  A German music industry group says it has signed an agreement with YouTube on licensing fees for its members' work _ a deal that should mean far fewer blocked videos for viewers in Germany
  
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• Spectacular new Hamburg concert hall completed _ finally

  01-11-2016 09:40
  
  A spectacular new concert hall overlooking Hamburg's harbor has been completed, several years behind schedule and far over the original budget
  
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• Tony Bennett, Muppets set for Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

  01-11-2016 09:01
  
  Tony Bennett, Sarah McLachlan, De La Soul and the cast and Muppets of "Sesame Street" will be among the stars celebrating at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City
  
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• Japanese all-girls band under fire for Nazi-like outfits

  01-11-2016 07:31
  
  A popular teenage all-girls band in Japan is under fire for performing in outfits resembling Nazi-era German military uniforms
  
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• Malaysia's PM hopes to improve his image with China trip

  01-11-2016 07:03
  
  Malaysia's prime minister, who is embattled at home because of a financial scandal that prompted a U.S. government investigation, is visiting Beijing this week
  
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• Ricky Skaggs, Chris Stapleton honored by ASCAP

  01-11-2016 06:39
  
  Ricky Skaggs and Chris Stapleton were honored at the ASCAP Country Music Awards on Monday night
  
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